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Does anyone know where I can find an algorithm, as well as an R implementation of it, to carry out sparse principal component analysis (PCA)?

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    $\begingroup$ This question appears to be off-topic because it is about a request for code. $\endgroup$
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    $\begingroup$ @user603 I agree with you in general that we do not want to send programmers away as a policy. The problem here is that the question explicitly asks just for R code. If it were changed to request an algorithm I think there would be no controversy. $\endgroup$
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    $\begingroup$ @user603 Thanks for your comment; I take no offence; I was just underlining facts. I don't know about "in general": in my experience, most poor questions shouldn't be edited to a different question because a good underlying question cannot be identified. But in this case you did edit the question to an acceptable one. Whether it was the OP's real question remains unclear. A side-effect of the edit is that neither of the two up-voted answers, both posted before your edit, really answers the question as it stands! Oh well. $\endgroup$
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Another good package is the elasticnet package that Zou and Hastie put out. It has the function spca.

Be careful to select a good value of $\lambda$, the sparsity parameter (or vector of them).

I would be curious to know which package ends up working better for you since the other package mentioned by @Stephan Kolassa is a year newer and is by Hastie's coauthor, Tibshirani.

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Which function in which package are you interested in? All code is available on CRAN. For instance, if you are thinking about the PMA package (just the first one I found by googling for "CRAN Sparse Principal Components Analysis"), you can find the source code here.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thank you very much for your useful answer.I want to use general form of lasso which elasticnet to select a group of highly correlated variables.if you have any idea which is better please tell me your opinion. $\endgroup$
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